Daisy Fried (born 1967,

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) is an American

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Life

Fried graduated from

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in 1989. Her work has appeared in ''

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'', ''The Nation'', ''Poetry'', ''The New Republic'', ''American Poetry Review'', ''Antioch Review'', ''Threepenny Review'', ''Triquarterly''. She teaches creative writing in the

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MFA Program for Writers, and has taught creative writing as the Grace Hazard Conkling Poet-in-Residence at

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, at

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, the low-residency MFA program at

and the

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in Provincetown. She has written prose about poetry for ''Poetry'', ''The New York Times'' and ''The Threepenny Review'' and has been a blogger for Harriet, the blog of the Poetry Foundation. She lives with her husband, Jim Quinn, a writer (not the radio talk show host), and their daughter, in

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Awards

* 1998

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* 1999

Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize The Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize is a major United States, American literary award for a first full-length book of poetry in the English language. This prize of the University of Pittsburgh Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Penn ...

, for ''She Didn't Mean to Do It'' * 2004 Hodder Fellowship from

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* 2005 Cohen Award from ''Ploughshares'' for "Shooting Kinesha" *

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* 2007 Finalist for the

National Book Critics Circle Award The National Book Critics Circle Awards are a set of annual American literary awards by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) to promote "the finest books and reviews published in English".Pushcart Prize The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are ...

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Fellowship

Works

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Anthologies

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Essays

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References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fried, Daisy 1967 births Living people Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize winners Writers from Ithaca, New York Swarthmore College alumni Pew Fellows in the Arts American women poets 21st-century American women